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Aug 2023
4:55pm, 30 Aug 2023
21,990 posts
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3M
🤦🏽♂️
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Aug 2023
10:16pm, 30 Aug 2023
3,280 posts
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Steve NordRunner
It is wrong as stated, but has a bit of truth: there are higher tides both when they are on the same side and when at opposite sides. There is a bulge both at the side nearest the sun and the side furthest away from the sun. Think of it as the sides of the globe getting thinned but the far side is too far away and too soon to get thinned out - kinda like an egg. The moon reinforces this when at either of the two bulges - both the near side and far side to the sun.
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Aug 2023
10:22pm, 30 Aug 2023
3,281 posts
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Steve NordRunner
Sorry, I worded the sun and moon the wrong way round towards the end, but the principle is the same.
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Aug 2023
11:05pm, 30 Aug 2023
16,503 posts
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Badger
Yes indeed, the tidal forces are the same for full and new moon, it's the slope of the gravitational force across the diameter of the earth. Sounds like the journo trying to make what was said lay-friendly and taking it a little too far.
I was once viewing a solar eclipse by a channeled river that gets tidal bores, and the organisers were very nervous about the bore being exceptionally high because the tides were so perfectly aligned, and possibly overtopping the banks and soaking the local dignitaries. Didn't happen, but the bore was very impressive. More so than the eclipse, what with the 100% cloud cover.
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Aug 2023
11:13pm, 30 Aug 2023
3,284 posts
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Steve NordRunner
If the expert had said when they are on the same axis it would have been right. Or the Morecambe and Wise version: pulling on the same axis, but not necessarily in the same direction  I bet the reporter garbled it.
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Sep 2023
10:50am, 4 Sep 2023
29,557 posts
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fetcheveryone
Not quite a meaningless description, more the feeling I had when unpacking this very simple lamp from about 50 nested boxes. And later on that evening when it stopped working.
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Sep 2023
12:54pm, 4 Sep 2023
23,038 posts
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Red Squirrel
Fetch. That’s beyond annoying, but your comment made me laugh out loud.
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Sep 2023
2:21pm, 4 Sep 2023
31,240 posts
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Maclennane
Kate Bush's lost second album?
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Sep 2023
9:56pm, 26 Sep 2023
22,684 posts
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ChrisHB
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Sep 2023
11:50pm, 26 Sep 2023
3,432 posts
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Steve NordRunner
LOL.
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